The Beautiful Heartbreak Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

it's the beautiful heartbreak seen from Space

when snow is driven from place to place

as if in exile once again



from the bitter winds that Winter sends

and we are sheep without a fold

or we are ships without a hold



and carry love in vagrant hands

to God our friend through shifting lands

and fall and stumble on the way



as Him who bore the Cross that day

who sees in us though we can't say

His heart live on in smaller ways



thus we draw courage from His well

though all on earth should turn to hell.



mary angela douglas 30 june 2019